Brandy (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Brandy

Brandy is Latin for a goose; a memento to prevent the animal from rising in the stomach by a glass of the good creature.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Brandy-faced * Brat

Nearby

Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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